waiting for now

i find it amazing how music can transport you straight to another time
listening to hatful of hollow on vinyl, i was 15 again
johnny marr's edgy guitar, morrissey's smooth melancholic vocals playing out all my teenage angst and bewilderment and that feeling that you've already waited too long
if you haven't listened or watched the video in a while, how soon is now?
a staircase leading to a shelf, apropos of nothing
trying to find an image for this blog, i came across an exhibition called how soon is now? in vancouver (march 2009) - the blurb goes, “The work is really bold and unapologetic in presentation,” says VAG curator Kathleen Ritter, who visited about 120 artist studios to assemble How Soon Is Now. According to Ritter, these artists are aware of but not overly preoccupied with their predecessors — they’re more interested in creating something new.
i liked this piece by sonny assu, 1884/1952
from the review,
In 1884/1961, sonny assu, an aboriginal artist of Laich-kwil-tach descent, has constructed 67 “disposable” grande-sized coffee cups made out of copper, which was a significant material in the potlatch tradition of Pacific Northwest native people.
The 67 cups also represent the number of years that the potlatch — a ceremony that involved feasting and elaborate gift giving and was deemed “wasteful” and “heathen” by Christian missionaries — was banned in the province. Assu neatly parallels the consumer culture of the present with the tradition (and flaunting of wealth) of the native people.